Ohio Right to Life Condemns Reckless Judicial Interference in Women’s Health
July 9, 2025; CONTACT: Communications Director, comms@ohiolife.org
Columbus, Ohio – Today, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas sided with the big abortion lobby over women’s health when it blocked Ohio’s common-sense health and safety requirement that chemical abortion pills only be prescribed by a doctor.
The practice of medicine should be done by doctors, not lawyers who are diluting the practice of medicine and placing women’s lives at risk. The abortion industry will always choose profit over the health of women and this decision reveals their willingness to do that yet again.
Ohioans elected legislators and a governor who agreed that chemical abortion pills are not something to be handed out by unqualified people. Because chemical abortions have a 1 in 20 risk of complication and a 1 in 300 risk of a severe adverse event, lifting the requirement of a doctor’s involvement is extremely reckless.
These nurses and clinicians are often untrained in dealing with severe complications. Further, 1 in 20 of these types of abortions are incomplete and require surgical intervention that can only be done by a doctor.
Ohio Right to Life cannot emphasize enough that transfer of care is extremely high-risk for women due to the chance of errors, omissions, and adverse events.
The only way to avoid this life-threatening situation is for a doctor to be the one who prescribes these abortion-inducing medications so that he or she is also the one who deals with these frequent complications. Given these facts, we are confident that pro-life Attorney General Dave Yost will have ample ground to appeal this decision all the way to the Supreme Court. It’s tragic that women’s lives will hang in the balance while lawyers instead of doctors make these decisions.